HNoMS Ellida (1880)
HNoMS ''Ellida'' was a 1. class gunboat built for the Royal Norwegian Navy. Like the other List of Royal Norwegian Navy ships#Gunships, Norwegian gunships of her era, she carried a reasonable heavy armament on a diminutive hull. A distinct feature of ''Ellida'' was that her funnel could be raised and lowered as needed. The vessel was built at the Naval Yard at Horten, and had yard number 59. It is unclear from the sources if the listed armament is the original armament, or if ''Ellida'' originally was armed with a much heavier main gun like the slightly older 1. class gunboat HNoMS Sleipner (1877), ''Sleipner''. ''Ellida'', like ''Sleipner'', carried an underwater torpedo tube in her bow for firing Robert Whitehead, Whitehead torpedoes, and she was the second vessel in the Royal Norwegian Navy equipped with this weapon. ''Ellida'' underwent a refit in 1896, and was reclassified as a Corvette, steam corvette. From 1898 she was used as a training vessel for Officer Cadet, cadets. ...
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